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The Great Gatsby
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Finding Quotes

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

– Henry David Thoreau

Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.

– Gardner Dozois

Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you’d just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding ‘Keep smiling – Fyodor.’

– Howard Jacobson

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

– Henry David Thoreau

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

– Herman Hesse

Finding things to wear is what the Internet’s for.

– Ian Hecox

NASA has never had a problem finding capable people to be astronauts. NASA’s problem was, and still is, finding ways to cut the list of capable applicants down to a manageable length.

– Henry Spencer

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

– Garry Winogrand

The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passed beyond 49, so probably, I am no longer a desirable commodity for TV. And I am at peace with that; that’s fine.

– Hugh Laurie

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer… only to find out that our answer wasn’t quite the answer.

– Guy Finley

I love finding – or inventing – ways to categorize people.

– Gretchen Rubin

‘Finding Nemo’ was originally shot in 3D.

– John Lasseter

By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

– Jim Ryun

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else’s voice.

– Jeannette Walls

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

– George Bernard Shaw

I’ve found that nurturing untapped potential is far more exhilarating than finding someone who has already peaked.

– Jason Fried

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

– James Baldwin

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one’s essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

– James Payn

There’s an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you’re the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.

– Jack Horner

Gosh, I love saying ‘Booyakasha!’ I keep finding new ways to say it. I love saying ‘Booyakasha.’

– Greg Cipes

I’m still finding myself as an artist. I’m still experimenting a little bit.

– Jacob Whitesides

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that’s connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

– Jamie Dornan

I’m interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

– Jim Crace

The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you’re just finding your feet.

– Jimmy Carr

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

– John Naisbitt

Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.

– Joseph Brodsky

Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There’s this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.

– Irvine Welsh

There’s something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.

– Jim Harrison

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

– Joan Jett

I do know where I’m going and it’s just a matter of finding the language to get there.

– John Irving

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